Life, trial, & execution of Jonathan Smithers
Subtitle: for arson and murder
Publisher: Quick, Printer, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell, and Fashion Street, Spitalfields.
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Arson; Poetry; Executions and executioners; Trials (Arson); Trials (Murder); Repentance
Other titles: Life, trial, and execution of Jonathan Smithers, for arson and murder.
Notes: Primarily an account of the trial, with one column of verse.

Smithers was convicted of setting fire to his own house, in which three people died.

Verses begin : Come all ye London shop keepers and listen unto me.

Wood engraving (7.7 x 9.8 cm.) : Scene in prison cell; prisoner seated at desk.

Wood engraving (5.8 x 7.2) : Hanging scene before prison walls, with spectators, within a border (8 x 9 cm.) of type ornaments.

Date of imprint from execution date, indicated in manuscript annotation on Harvard Law School Library copy.

No restrictions on access.

Dying speeches II, 114. Manuscript annotation: July 9, 1832.